That's actually a very good point about the "Legacy". If Apple could change that term on their website that would be a help for new people wanting to adopt WO as a platform.
Paul On Sep 11, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Farrukh Ijaz wrote: > >>> All new additions to the community comes from single people or very reduced >>> team among the community, without other even knowing that there is >>> something undertaken. Is it possible to organize a common roadmap and a >>> method to be used by the community to propose new features (part exists >>> with Jira) but also to organize the design (something more structured than >>> the mailing list, private chats our tweets) and the development? >> imo, the best thing the community can do to increase the number of people >> contributing is to contribute. don't start a committee to investigate the >> creation of a project to contribute to the community. just contribute. do >> you have frameworks in your app that aren't core IP? put them on github. >> project wonder doesn't have to be the clearing house for everything >> open-source in wo. everybody here has built components and tools on top of >> wo and wonder. put them out. > > Removing the word "Legacy" and replacing the screeshots of Apple's WebObjects > documentation with WOLips' one can make a difference too :) > > One must understand the differences between WO and a non WO platform prior to > do any development. Imo, for a beginner's point, starting from a D2W project > is even worst as most of the non WO people don't get the idea of Rule System > unless they understand EOF and other supporting stuff. > > It took me a year to understand WO as for me (J2EE developer) everything was > revolving around Servlets (Struts, JSF, and similar framworks) and I missed a > lot of important stuff in the beginning just because I thought the Legacy is > no more in use so there is no need to read it. After multiple failures to set > a proper road map for learning WO, I gave up on Wonder and started from > Legacy WebObjects and gone through every inch of the text. Then I understood > that switching from non WO to WO is similar to switching religion. It's a > rabbit hole to wonder land. > > To contribute to WO, Alice must jump. > > Farrukh >> > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/pyu%40mac.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
